Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2002 00:11:16 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 32bit wraps and USER_HZ [64 bit counters], kernel 2.5.37 |
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On Tuesday 24 September 2002 00:13, Robert Love wrote: >> Having arrays statically created at NR_CPUS inside the task_struct is >> just gross. Especially with NR_CPUS=32. That is 128 bytes each! Now >> with your changes, it is 256 bytes each!
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:04:25AM +0200, Rolf Fokkens wrote: > I can understand that. However from a user point of view statistics are very > usefull information, but not specifically the per-processor statistics. > I assume you mean to leave out the per-process statistics? Or do you mean to > kmalloc the per-processor statistics when needed - that is: only when > processes are running or maybe when the user has chosen to turn then on (some > sysctl maybe)?
I'm in favor of removing them entirely.
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